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From: ahill@CC5.BBN.COM ("Alan R. Hill")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP MTU "violation" - does anyone? does anyone care?
Message-ID: <8810090657.AA27807@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 88 14:06:10 GMT
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Rick,
	I'll probably regret this but I have to ask why you have the
impression that the IMP will not accept messages exceeding 1006 bytes?
The X.25 limit is 1024.  The 1822 limit is 8063 bits and the DDN
X.25 Standard service limit is 8056 bits or 1007 bytes.  Can you
shed some light on where the 1006 byte number originated?

Thanks,
Alan